Spurgeon's first controversy occurred during this time - the "Rivulet Controversy" caused by a hymn collection published by Thomas Toke Lynch: Hymns for Heart and Voice, The Rivulet. The miscreants shouted "Fire!" during work, and then: "Galleries are on sale!" An uproar ensued which left seven dead and many injured.
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
THE TABERNACLE STONE-LAYING
In October, 4,000 listened to Spurgeon preach on "Come unto Me" in a meadow in Carlton, Bedfordshire. Around this time, Spurgeon's antislavery sentiments became more widely known, and at a weekly meeting in New Park Street Chapel on December 8, Spurgeon had John Andrew Jackson, a fugitive slave from South Carolina, on the platform with him.
RAISING FUNDS
THE TABERNACLE OPENED
426, surrounded in black, was delivered by Spurgeon on the occasion of the death of the Queen of England's Prince Consort. During 1861 more than 200,000 were distributed in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a special edition in German was printed for the Leipsic Book Fair.
THE PASTOR’S COLLEGE
THE SERMONS
Spurgeon donated £120 to the building fund and a deacon from the Tabernacle presented him with a silver trowel as a moment of occasion.
TENTH. ANNIVERSARY
THIRTY YEARS OF AGE
The only sad note during 1865 is that Spurgeon, now thirty years of age, and having served his Lord in London for eleven years, had to inform his congregation in May that he was leaving England for a change of scene and a period of rest and rest and refreshment. Taking great advantage of the change of eight weeks away, Spurgeon resumed his Tabernacle work and was also able to attend the fall meetings of the Bradford Baptist Union and the re-.
BATTLING AND BUILDING
A few years later, a message appeared from his successor to the Pastorate, stating: “It is with great sadness that we announce that we must discontinue the publication of The Sword and the Trowel.” The last issue was December 1968. Yet it was his proud statement: "We trust that the content and style of The Sword and the Trowel have not deteriorated, for we have spared no effort and have carefully read every line ourselves."
THREE NEW INSTITUTIONS
In the last month of the year Spurgeon announced that they had purchased three acres of land on Clapham Road (about a mile from the Tabernacle) and it was proposed to build an orphanage on this ground and house the children on the "family system." ” and not “pressed together like in workshops.”. Thus, with the renewed emphasis on foreign missions (tabernacle members going to India said goodbye), when Spurgeon declared that he wanted to see "the return of the heroic age of missions," it is clear that in 1866 there was no diminution of the power of the great preacher in pulpit or any decline in his wider activities for the spread of God's kingdom through his various institutions.
THE TABERNACLE RENOVATED
James Archer Spur-geon undertook much of the routine day-to-day work of the Tabernacle, in addition to becoming Pastor of West Croydon Baptist Church. At the end of the year the Almshouses were completed—twelve rooms for old women, Spurgeon himself giving the sum of £5,000 to furnish them.
PROTESTANTS ENCOURAGED
He preached to crowded congregations in Liverpool and Bristol during 1868, and in Bristol he had to preach at nine o'clock in the morning as well as at night, to accommodate the crowds.
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE
SERMON SALES
Monday, set aside by the London Baptist Association for special intercession on behalf of the London Baptist Churches. At the end of the year Spurgeon published the second part of The Treasury of David, which was just as enthusiastically received as the first part.
PREACHING IN ROME
Despite the difficulty of preaching through an interpreter, his sermons were greatly blessed and caused quite a stir in the national English press of the time.
AN ATTEMPT AT CHURCH UNITY
In the fall, Spurgeon was present at the Baptist Union meetings in Manchester and proposed an annual congress of "all the voluntary churches for spiritual purposes," and asked. He also preached at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, when an overflow meeting was to be held at the Friends' Meeting House.
THE NEW COLLEGE BUILDING
L. MOODY AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE
Seventy-five new members were added to the roll of members of the Metropolis Tabernacle at the opening of 1876, thus making a total of 4900 (see Sermon No. 1292). The tabernacle was asked to vacate their seats so that strangers could come under the sound of the gospel.
OPEN DAY” AT THE ORPHANAGE
TESTIMONIAL YEAR
He did this on two Sundays in September when he based his messages on the sinking of the ship The Princess Alice. Also in September, the fifth volume of The Treasury of David appeared, Spurgeon's commentary on Psalms 104-118.
SILVER WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
It was published, he said in the foreword, “in self-defense,” as an attempt to prevent God's ministers in the Christian ministry from suffering harsh criticism, detecting errors and untruths. A girls' orphanage was inaugurated in October, the houses of which were larger than the existing boys' houses.
SERMON HOUSE
In August John Ploughman's Pictures (with the subtitle: . "More of his plain talk for plain people") was published for one shilling (gilt edges two shillings!). It was a sequel to John Ploughman's Talk which had an immense circulation and had a good influence.
FRIEND OF THE BAPTIST UNION
Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar was a guest on the platform of dignitaries, accompanied by the Mayor of Portsmouth.
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS
In sermon number 1649 (page 151) we have Spurgeon's views on the weekly observance of the Lord's Supper. In the same month, Twelve Selected Soul-Winning Sermons was published in his Shilling Series, followed by Twelve Striking Sermons.
SPURGEON AND LUTHER
On two more occasions the regular congregation of the Tabernacle gave up their seats that strangers might come under the sound of the gospel: See No. Spurgeon then went to France to winter at Menton, and while a little volume The Clue of the Maze was being prepared.
FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
He struggled through the rest of the year, fulfilling some obligations and canceling others, dining at the Stockwell Orphanage on Christmas Day with Mme. He was extremely weak and this was to be his last Christmas dinner with his beloved children and friends from the orphanage.
THE TREASURY OF DAVID COMPLETED
SPURGEON AND THE REVISED VERSION
THE DOWN GRADE CONTROVERSY
THE CONTROVERSY CONTINUED
He was now 54 years old, and at a feast held in his honor at Stockwell Orphanage, he could only stay for a few moments as he was so physically weak. By October he was bedridden for a time and in November went to the south of France to recuperate.
AFTERMATH
THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE REFURBISHED
THE BREAKDOWN
In France, Spurgeon had periods without pain and continued to work on the Gospel of the Kingdom, and also completed his Memoirs of Stambourne, published in November.
HOME CALL
Shindler, and was in two parts: I – From the Desk of the Messenger to the Pulpit in the Tabernacle; II – From the pulpit to the palm branch.
THE BROKEN MOULD
Writing about "The Fall of a Giant", Pierson claimed that: God had given him "to the whole church". He said that "the fragrance of the ministry of the Word has been kept fresh by the printed sermons week by week.
THE INFLUENCE OF SPURGEON’S SERMONS
Sermon material has been described as "the graveyard of many a preacher's reputation." It strengthened Spurgeon's and became the means of perpetuating his name, but still more that of his Saviour, long after that "the voice of the great preacher was silent.
THE UNABATED GLOW
Finding himself short of books in his first Highland parish in Scotland, Sir William Robertson Nicoll discovered that a cobbler in the village had a complete set of Spurgeon's sermons. In the days of inflation, these penny pulpits are gone, but today they are so invaluable to ministers and laymen, and one must make an effort (or sacrifice) to have a complete set in order to catch the "undiminished splendor."
DINNA FORGET SPURGEON”
Once on a steamboat to Oregon, someone brought out a volume of Spurgeon's sermons and asked a passenger to read it aloud. Between the leaves of a book was the sermon "Salvation in the Utterrnost" by Spurgeon.
REPORTING SPURGEON
In a sermon on this subject (No. 2000, "With His stripes we are healed", Isaiah 53:5), Spurgeon urged all Christians to preach this gospel of atonement.
SPURGEON’S VOICE
Parker changed it to "The voice is the man" in light of his great contemporary, Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
SPURGEON THE OPEN AIR PREACHER
However, the end of this era was marked by the chancel steps of the old New Park Street chapel being removed to the garden of his residence in Nightingale Lane, Clapham. They were tied to the trunk of a large willow tree but were not later removed to his new home in Westood, Beulah Hill, Norwood.
PUT YOUR NAME IN!
Have you entered your name? You could have given this book of soul-saving sermons as a girl. Write your name in it, and the date you will receive Christ into your heart as Savior and Lord, after reading the way of salvation in these precious pages.
INTRODUCING TIRSHATHA
Not only did he establish his own philanthropic institutions (an orphanage for boys and girls, more than twenty missions, almshouses, etc.), but he supported men like Müller and Barnado in their work with children and Groom in his work with crippled girls. In his pockets were five pound notes ready to be distributed to the poor ministers and their widows.
THE FOURTH DIMENSIONAL SPURGEON
Read Spurgeon as he enters the spiritual realm and you will feel that you are with one of the great mystics of the world.” He recorded sermons and was an invaluable asset to Spurgeon in preparing messages for publication, and he was also
A BUNCH OF SWEET PEAS
He worked with and through them, teaching them his love for divine truth and his zeal for the kingdom of Christ. They “prayed together, cried and laughed together, and were soul winners together.” He told John Fluskin that he was very happy to be a minister.
WALKS AND TALKS WITH SPURGEON
He went to the pulpit "anticipating victory, not anticipating defeat." He expected to defeat and not to be defeated. Wayland Hoyt sums up Spurgeon in these words: “He had a singular faculty, a flurry of emotion, and a brilliant felicity in speech, and these would have done much for him; but the most important thing was that he was a man completely consecrated to Jesus Christ.
SPURGEON AND MONEY
When a legacy was left for his personal use, he always consulted his lawyer to see if there were any living relatives who needed the money more. And he always kept a packet of £5 notes in his waistcoat pocket for ready distribution to the needy, especially poor ministers of the gospel and their widows.
SPURGEON’S HUMOR
On the other hand, Dr. Spurgeon's contemporaries) is listened to fifty times, and though he could make others smile, he never smiled himself. Spurgeon), and in death his features were "strangely sublime" - death, fixed on his features "a serene and heavenly smile".
SPURGEON’S HANDWRITING
The expert's final assessment is that Spurgeon's handwriting was inimitable, that is, "defying imitation" (Oxford Dictionary). And we know that as some preachers imitated Spurgeon's style of preaching, there were people who tried to imitate his handwriting.
SPURGEON AS POET AND HYMN-WRITER
In the foreword he wrote: "The editor has inserted with great trepidation a few of his own compositions." He actually added 28, including paraphrases of several psalms. The songs were, of course, composed around the doctrines of grace he preached and appear in the songbook under sections such as "The Holy Spirit," "Conflict and Encouragement," "Electing a Pastor."
SPURGEON’S WORKING WEEK
So much for the critics who said he went to the pulpit unprepared, often not knowing what text he was about to preach. There are two portraits of what we will soon be; all the steam has gone out of us, our faculties have been used up, the powerful fires of our being have been used up.” So he was far from sane and he knew it.
SPURGEON THE CHILDREN’S FRIEND
One of Spurgeon's contemporaries once said that he liked to make children happy when he preached because he knew how miserable they would be when they grew up. Spurgeon's best prayer is said to be the one he prayed with a dying orphanage boy.
SPURGEON THE COUNTRYMAN
If we open our eyes, we will discover abundant images everywhere.” In the lecture “Where can we find anecdotes and illustrations?” he referred first to history and then to natural history, referring to such books as Tour Round My Garden. How Spurgeon would have used television, sonic flight, and all the findings from lunar walks and planetary probes of this twentieth century in the service of the gospel.
SPURGEON AND THE RAILWAY
Spurgeon's companion had known him, and the man was the general manager of the line on which Spurgeon was traveling. In a great sermon on Job 16:22 ("Our Last Journey") Spurgeon preached about the Christian's final homecoming and illustrated it by referring to a railway journey between the Borouq Road station and that of the Elephant and Castle (only a matter of minutes).
A PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS ABOUT SPURGEON
The Prime Minister concluded with these words: “My suggestion to any young man, especially, is this — to put Spurgeon on his list of friends. I am asking you to make sure that his name, which will live in literature, will live in this part of his work (college), to which he gave much of his heart, much of his effort, which shortened his life."
THE ARCHITECT OF THE TABERNACLES
While the Tabernacle was being built, Pocock's Wesleyan Chapel was being built on the grounds of Richmond College. Now that “he is dead yet he speaks” through the printed sermons, these parts that neither the architect nor the minister could have imagined when the Tabernacle was erected in 1861.
THE SMALL CLASPED BOOK
Most of the books and documents have been scanned or written from works that have entered the public domain. Some have been reproduced by special arrangement with the current publisher or copyright holder.
